ooli@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 5 months agoMake no mistake, the owning class is actively working against your interestsi.redd.itimagemessage-square219fedilinkarrow-up11.69Karrow-down168
arrow-up11.62Karrow-down1imageMake no mistake, the owning class is actively working against your interestsi.redd.itooli@lemmy.world to Work Reform@lemmy.world · 5 months agomessage-square219fedilink
minus-squareKilling_Spark@feddit.delinkfedilinkarrow-up22·5 months agoIf living off of your assets without working is possible to you you are not working class. It’s that simple.
minus-squareFal@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down11·5 months agoSo what’s “possible”? You mean could they take a 1/50th pay cut and survive on like 30k a year from their investments? Possibly. That certainly doesn’t make them “owning class” though
minus-squareHonytawk@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 months agoNo what makes them owning class is because they own their means of income, they don’t have to work for it.
minus-squareFal@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·5 months agoSo what about people who have some investments but also still have to work? Or whose standard of living would seriously decline if they did not work?
If living off of your assets without working is possible to you you are not working class. It’s that simple.
So what’s “possible”? You mean could they take a 1/50th pay cut and survive on like 30k a year from their investments? Possibly. That certainly doesn’t make them “owning class” though
No what makes them owning class is because they own their means of income, they don’t have to work for it.
So what about people who have some investments but also still have to work? Or whose standard of living would seriously decline if they did not work?
Those are trans owners.